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| bio | website | stackoverflow.com |
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| location | New York, NY | |
| age | 42 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 6 months |
| seen | 2 days ago | |
| stats | profile views | 70 |
Areas of strength:
- Perl expert (specifically enterprise software development)
- Sybase (including design and optimization)
- GUI design
Areas of familiarity:
- Web programming (EmbPerl, JSP, CSS, HTML, JavaScript)
- C++
...P.S. I'm not really 42. But 42 is way cooler than a real answer :)
...P.P.S. Don't read too much into the icon. Just a minor nod to Cryptonomicon.
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May 2 |
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Did the break up of AT & T in 1984 lead to technological innovation? I'm not sure you have conclusively shown that the breakup was related to technical innovation (prices for long distance dropping is more of an open and shut case, but that didn't by itself cause innovation) |
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Apr 30 |
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What were acceptance criteria/process to the Vienna Fine Arts Academy in 1906-7? edited title |
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Apr 30 |
answered | Why were people from the Asian Steppes able to militarily dominate Europeans on a repeated basis? |
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Apr 29 |
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Why did Germany attack Neutral Belgium in the first world war? @Anixx - Ultimatum usually takes the exact form "X OR ELSE", and the latter part is explicitly stated and not just implied. |
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Apr 29 |
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Les Misérables historical setting +1 if you can sing this answer. |
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Apr 29 |
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Could The Soviet Union have continued fighting World War II without Caucasus oil? @TomAu - I'm unsure how well they could transport the oil in needed quantities through entire Russia. |
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Apr 29 |
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Could The Soviet Union have continued fighting World War II without Caucasus oil? @TomAu - that's different. You can make people work harder and eat less. You can't make an engine/industrial process consume less oil/gas/diesel with "or will shoot you" motivation. |
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Apr 29 |
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Could The Soviet Union have continued fighting World War II without Caucasus oil? added 1128 characters in body |
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Apr 29 |
answered | Could The Soviet Union have continued fighting World War II without Caucasus oil? |
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Apr 29 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Apr 29 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Apr 26 |
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Was Hitler's genocide of the Jews “different” from other mass killings? @Sardathrion - Mao's Cultural Revolution, while horrible in its own right, did NOT target specific ethnicity (it was perpetrated by political group within Han majority against everyone of a certain class, who were mostly others of Han majority). So I don't think it can be called "genocide" under that definition. |
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Apr 26 |
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Why did Carter force the Shah toward a more open political atmosphere in Iran? Jimmy Carter is wel known, no need for clarification :) |
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Apr 26 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Was Ayatollah Khamenei a KGB spy before the 1979 revolution? |
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Apr 23 |
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When and where did Louis Blanc say the famous “from each according to his abilities…”? @coleopterist - that's a different (Stalinist flavor) version then. |
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Apr 23 |
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When and where did Louis Blanc say the famous “from each according to his abilities…”? @coleopterist - do you have the Saint-Simon quote? I am not very good at reading French (understatement of the century) |
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Apr 23 |
answered | Were members of Soviet Republican Communist Parties also members of the CPSU? |
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Apr 23 |
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general philosophical question about history @YannisRizos - I don't think there's much to add to this one aside from my point, which isn't worth a separate answer. |
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Apr 22 |
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Was Willem the Silent Dutch? Napoleon was "French". Except he was Sicilian. Stalin was (to most Westerners) Russian (despite being from Georgia). Ayn Rand was "American" writer (despite having been born in Russia). Ditto Sikorsky. How culture percieves the nationality of a famous person is not really governed by formal rules, more by circumstances and sometimes chance. |
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Apr 22 |
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Can we classify holocaust as Hitler's war time strategic mistake? Hitler DID welcome Ukrainians and Baltic people into his supporters. A large portion did participate (see Vlasov as a random example) |
